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Australia: Corporate giants take up fight for gas targets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Sydney Morning Herald: A POWERFUL coalition of companies is calling for more urgent action on climate change in the wake of fresh evidence that global warming already threatens Australia's snowfields, flood-prone coastal areas, much of the Great Barrier Reef and large swathes of grazing industry land. The group warns that climate change is not just a potential environmental catastrophe but a huge economic threat, and that delaying action will impose far greater costs in the future. It wants Australia ... |
Australia: Insurers' climate nightmare (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Australian: INSURERS have warned that the seachange drift to the nation's tropical north will exacerbate the financial losses caused by global warming. Climate change was likely to bring more Cyclone Larrys, more severe storms, more frequent flooding and longer droughts to the north of the country, which was becoming home to more and more Australians, IAG chief executive Michael Hawker said. Mr Hawker, who heads up Australia's largest insurance company, was among a group of six chief ... |
Australia: 'Get serious' on greenhouse gas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Herald Sun: A MECHANISM for pricing carbon emissions was urgently needed if Australia was to get serious about climate change, a powerful new business lobby claimed yesterday. The Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change yesterday called on the Federal Government to deliver a "long, loud and legal" framework to establish a carbon-price signal to put a value on greenhouse gases (GHG). The Roundtable, made up of the chief executives of six multibillion-dollar companies, said ... |
Australia: Climate inaction will hit jobs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Advertiser: DELAYING action on climate change could cost 250,000 jobs, a report commissioned by a coalition of big businesses has found. The Business Case For Early Action report says that if environmental initiatives are put off, it will become more expensive for business and the wider economy to take steps to reduce greenhouse emissions. BP Australia, Insurance Australia Group, Origin Energy, Swiss Re and Visy Industries teamed up with the Australian Conservation Foundation to measure ... |
Air pollution cuts eight months off life span (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Independent: Air pollution from cars, factories and homes shortens the lives of everyone in Britain by an average of eight months, according to an official study. Ministers warned that chemicals from car exhausts, ships and industrial sites were still having "a marked effect on health" despite efforts to cut pollution. They insisted that air in Britain was cleaner than at any time since the 19th century but expected to miss targets to reduce the levels of nitrogen dioxide, ozone ... |
Arctic water flow speeding up (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Nature: One of Siberia's largest rivers is dumping about 10% more fresh water into the Arctic today than it was some 60 years ago, thanks to the complex effects of increased snowfall, melting permafrost and changing weather. The result is in line with predictions of how climate change is expected to alter the Arctic water cycle, and is a worrying sign in terms of maintaining important ocean currents. The more fresh water that enters the northern seas, the less dense this water becomes and the ... |
Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Washington Post: Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing. Employees and contractors working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with a U.S. Geological Survey scientist working at an NOAA lab, said in interviews that over the ... |
United States: Global warming advocates no longer out in the cold (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Ventura County Star: Five years ago, when backers of an idea to make California the first state to regulate vehicle emissions of the gases that cause global warming, the only lawmaker they could find to carry their bill was a rookie assemblywoman fresh out of a career teaching a junior high civics class in Moorpark. It was introduced without fanfare and few took notice. It took two years to pass and had to overcome a ferocious lobbying effort by the auto and petroleum industries. Monday, the ... |
Global warning (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Fortune: Forgive the bad pun, but global warming has become a hot topic in the mass media. ABC News spent two days focusing on climate change last month. Time ran a cover story headlined, "Be Worried. Be Very Worried." HBO will show a documentary called "Too Hot Not to Handle" on Earth Day. Next month, Paramount plans to release "An Inconvenient Truth," a theatrical film about former vice president Al Gore's crusade to protect the earth from global ... |
The heat is on (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Sydney Morning Herald: Warning: climate change can damage your health. That's the opinion of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health's Professor Tony McMichael, who believes "climate change will affect human health in many ways - mostly adversely" - and says the risk to human health is one of the "most under-appreciated" effects of changing weather patterns. Climate change is a contentious issue in the world of science and there is a range of opinion about ... |
A million at risk as Georgian floods loom (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Associated Press: More than a million Georgians could be evacuated after being told they are at risk from catastrophic flooding, landslides and mud flows, says the country's chief environmental adviser. Geologists and other experts are examining mountainsides and river valleys so people in disaster-prone areas can be evacuated in time. The homes of 400,000 families in 3,000 settlements are at risk, says Emi Tsereteli, of the State University of Georgia, head of the environment ministry emergency ... |
Global Warmers (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Tom Paine: If you wonder why the Congress hasn't taken decisive action on global warming, you might start by asking Michael G. Morris, chairman, president and CEO of American Electric Power–probably the single biggest source of global warming in America. Morris loves to bask in the glow of awards given to his company by the Bush administration and others for its "voluntary" approach to climate control–while consistently lobbying against any effort in Congress to limit global warming ... |
Green TV channel goes on air (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Edie: The world's first environmental broadband TV channel is now on air - and online - with films and programmes on everything from NO2 emissions around airports and offshore wind farms to "carbon speed dating." Green.tv, developed with support from the UN, aims to be a one-stop shop for broadcast environmental information, with a searchable database of programmes made by NGOs, community filmmakers, public and commercial organisations. Some of the first films to go on air were ... |
Australia: NASA Helps Monitor Bleaching of Great Barrier Reef (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Reuters: NASA satellites that monitor ocean color and temperature have joined a global effort to study the worrisome bleaching of coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the US space agency said on Wednesday. Coral reefs get bleached when water is too warm, which forces out tiny algae that live in the coral and help it to thrive and give it its vivid color, NASA said in a statement. Without these algae, coral can whiten and eventually die. "Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the ... |
Australia: Plant trees or lose jobs: climate report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| AAP: Australia must start planting trees or face losing 250,000 jobs in the next 20 years because of climate change, a major new report says. A coalition of leading Australian companies and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has released a report into the risks of climate change in Australia. The research, undertaken by CSIRO and the Allen Consulting Group, suggests greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced to 60 per cent of 1990 levels within 50 years, while maintaining ... |
United States: Senators denounce bid to block wind farm (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Boston Globe: The US Senate's leading voices on energy yesterday blasted their colleagues' attempt to block a wind farm off Cape Cod, saying the effort would contradict the commitment to expanding renewable energy that Congress built into last year's Energy Policy Act. The chairman of the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Pete V. Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, and the committee's ranking Democrat, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, both spoke out against an amendment that could kill ... |
Spain seen as renewables honeypot by investors (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Edie: Consultants Ernst & Young have released quarterly figures showing where the bulk of capital investment into renewable energy is going and which countries are seen as most desirable locations by the money men. This time last year Spain and the UK jointly held first place but now Britain is trailing in fourth. USA and Germany hold the second and third slots respectively in the Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices while India makes a surprise appearance at number ... |
Canada: Tories plan cuts to climate change programs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| CBC: Forty per cent of this year's budget for climate change programs has been slashed from the departments of Natural Resources and Environment , CBC News has learned. The cuts include the much-advertised One Tonne Challenge, 40 public information offices across the country and several scientific and research programs on climate change. "If it's not in the taxpayers' interest to fund programs that are not effective, then we are not going to," said Natural Resources ... |
White House Renews Call for Nevada Nuke Waste Site (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Reuters: The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site in the Nevada desert would be authorized to hold twice as much nuclear waste as currently planned under legislation the Bush administration said it will send to Congress on Wednesday. US Energy Secretary Sam Bodman on Tuesday said the legislation "will speed the process of opening the Yucca Mountain repository and make it an even more valuable national asset once it is up and running." But Senate Minority Leader ... |
Australia: Campbell says Govt acting quickly on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: TONY EASTLEY: The Federal Government says it is taking early action to deal with climate change. The Environment Minister Senator Ian Campbell has been talking to Karen Percy. IAN CAMPBELL: One of the reasons we've taken early action as a Federal Government is that we would rather be ahead of the climate change game than behind, I think for the very good reasons they've identified. We're spending upwards of $2 billion on what we would consider early actions and it's ... |
EU executive gets tough on environmental violations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Reuters: European Union regulators said on Thursday they were taking legal action against several EU member states for failing to apply four of the 25-nation bloc's climate change laws. The European Commission sent first warnings to Cyprus, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta and Poland for their failure to link national registration of emission allowances with an EU-wide registration system, it said in a statement. Cyprus, Italy, Malta and Spain also received warnings for failing to submit ... |
Feinstein bill opens global warming door (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Argus: IS Sen. Dianne Feinsteins proposed plan to curb global warming enough or is it too late? Her blueprint has been hailed as acceptable by environmentalists without panicking industry and those concerned about how tighter regulations on greenhouse emissions will affect our economy. But two studies released last month show that the polar ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting at faster rates than previously thought and will eventually submerge coastal areas around the ... |
Fuel Economy Farce (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Bangor Daily News: The best that can be said about new vehicle fuel economy rules issued by federal regulators last week is that the largest sport utility vehicles will finally have to meet gas mileage standards, no matter how meager. On the bad side, buried in the voluminous rules is language barring states from enacting rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes, which would cut pollution that contributes to climate change while also improving fuel economy. Fortunately, Maine's senators ... |
US utilities' CO2 emissions up since 1990L: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Reuters: U.S. electric utilities' emissions of pollutants that cause acid rain and smog have fallen sharply since the federal government adopted stricter standards in 1990, but greenhouse gas emissions have risen in that time, according to a report released on Wednesday. The report, produced by environmental investor coalition Ceres, the National Resources Defense Coalition, and Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., analyzed 2004 data on emissions from the top 100 electric power producers in ... |
Australia: Wind farm decision overturned due to endangered bird (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ELEANOR HALL: A row between the Federal and Victorian governments over a wind energy development may now head to court with the developer Wind Power announcing it is considering taking legal action over the blocking of its wind farm. The Victorian Government had given the go ahead to the farm two years ago. But the Federal Environment Minister intervened to overturn that decision, citing the need to protect an endangered bird, the orange-bellied parrot. Alison Caldwell ... |
Forecast for Canadian Prairies: drier than a dust bowl (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:11
| Globe and Mail: Canada's Prairies are almost certain to experience future droughts far worse than the dry period that turned the region into a dust bowl during the 1930s, a new study warns. Dr. David Schindler, one of Canada's most prominent water experts, says he expects such arid conditions that immigration into Alberta should be restricted in light of looming water shortages. The study, co-authored by Schindler, an ecology professor at the University of Alberta, and published online in the ... |
Chile: Santiago Smog Taints Lagos's Legacy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-06-2006 at 03:00:12
| Inter Press Service: Leading Chilean environmentalists told IPS that the government of former president Ricardo Lagos had lied to the public and lacked the political will to effectively implement a plan to free Santiago from the smog that plagues local residents. That failure was pointed out in a report by independent auditors, the contents of which were leaked last Friday by two local newspapers. The report by three experts from Switzerland, the United States and Chile, which was commissioned by ... |
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